"You called me? My lord? Tus walked into William's study.

"Ah, it's not a big deal, just ask if there's anything unusual or anything else going on in your territory, and how well do our spies control the territory now?"

"Nothing has happened in the territory, there are fewer merchants due to the severe cold, and our spies can basically control the intelligence of the entire territory!"

"Well, very good, do a good job, as long as you do well, I will give you a noble status!" William held the status of a nobleman as a bargaining chip.

With that in mind, William walked out of his study and began to look around.

The first enemy he went to was the blacksmith's house, where there were eight blacksmiths, more than thirty apprentices, and the processing of iron products was very fast.

At this time, they were working in full swing, and their task was relatively tight, not only the armor of the returning Mandes soldiers needed to be repaired, but even the heart disease that had been training before had basically completed the one-year training.

They are no worse than veterans in terms of training, and their only weakness is that they have not experienced a large-scale war, so their armor is also on the agenda.

Heavy cavalry and knights need to repair their chain mail, infantry scales need to be replaced, and heart-trained heavy cavalry needs to be armed with chain mail.

It is estimated that these 30 or so people will be busy until the middle of spring to complete such a huge project.

"Very good, after completing this batch of tasks, each of you will get a bounty of thirty silver coins!" William walked among the blacksmiths, tempting them with money to speed up the forging.

In fact, William has long looked down on this blacksmith shop in his territory, it is too backward, too backward.

If it weren't for the fact that the iron couldn't keep up, William would definitely have to push the things in this blacksmith shop to rebuild and replace them with equipment with a higher success rate.

After inspecting the blacksmith's shop, William found Vidal, who was directing the trained recruits to settle the plundered inhabitants.

The veterans, on the other hand, were on vacation given by William, and they would return to the barracks after ten days.

"What's the matter? My lord? Vidal looked at the arriving William and asked respectfully.

"Remember the plan I told you about?"

"Of course, my lord, it's only been less than three hours."

"Very well, there are quite a few inhabitants in this group, I plan to let them do some labor at this time, now we are not as scarce as before, and the territory is richer!"

"That's true!" Vidal listened to William's words and nodded in agreement.

"And a rich territory like ours will definitely attract the covetousness of the enemy, so we need a castle to defend the wealth we produce, so I plan to put this group of people in charge of the construction of the castle!"

Vidal was a little surprised to hear this, a baron had already begun to prepare to build a castle, in everyone's impression, the castle was a tall thing, something that most viscounts could not have, and William now wanted to build a castle.

"What's wrong? Are there any difficulties in our territory? William looked at the shocked Vidal and asked, he was still satisfied with the talent of this servant.

"Oh no, there is no difficulty in the territory, my lord is wise, in fact with our population can indeed build a castle!" Vidal complimented.

Listening to Vidal's compliments, William couldn't help but be happy in his heart, the population of his territory was no worse than that of nobles like a viscount, the difference was only a title.

"Then, we have to get our civilians moving, I hope the civilians can reclaim some arable land again, after all, we have so many more people, and their participation will allow us to produce more food!"

"After you have set them up, go to the president of the Reims Guild and ask him to deliver some stones to us!" William said.

After returning to the study, William began to think about the way to build the city, although his population was sufficient, but if the penetration was followed, the castle built from pure stone slabs was very troublesome, and more than 3,000 people might not be able to complete it for five or six years, William hoped for a quick completion.

So he hit the idea on the Celestial Empire's method of building cities.

Of course, the Celestial Empire's method of building a city was not easy, and William could not afford a rammed earth structure mixed with glutinous rice and eggs, and what he hoped for was another method of building a city.

This method is not difficult, it is to erect the outline of the wall on the ground with wooden planks, and then paste it with clay, he remembers that he had read a book in his previous life, and the protagonist used this method to defend against the enemy.

Of course, the city wall of such a structure will not be very strong, so he plans to burn some bricks, a method of burning bricks that he vaguely remembers, which is also seen from a certain point, as for what kind of bricks are fired, then I don't know.

After all, the bricks of the Celestial Empire are also divided into red bricks, blue bricks, and the big bricks used by the construction team, anyway, no matter which of these three types, it is enough to build a city.

And put a layer of stone slabs on the outside, so that the castle will not be inferior to the pure stone castle.

But now he has to get a brick factory out first, otherwise he won't have any bricks to use.

The manservant outside was exchanged, sealed the envelope in his hand and handed it to him: "Give this order to Vidal and let him execute it immediately!" ”

After dealing with everything, William suddenly remembered that he had not yet made a proper decision on what to do with the Bradkman estate.

"Is anyone outside?"

"What do you command? My lord? A valet heard William's call and hurried into the study to wait for orders.

"Go and call me Nova and Urimu!"

Ten minutes later, Nowen and Urimu walked into the study in their daily clothes.

"Is there something wrong? William? Norwen asked.

"yes, what's the matter with the two of us?" Hu Li Mu said solemnly.

"I hope you two can go to the Bradkman Manor to declare my rule, and take over all the civilians everywhere, we can't build anywhere in a short time, so take over the population first, we have a lot to do now, and there is a shortage of people everywhere!"

"And what about Bradkerman Manor, which is left in ruins?" Urimu asked, and at the same time Norwen Yi meant the same thing, looking at William.

"We have no other way, the distance is too far for us to establish effective governance, and we can't build better places, so we might as well just transfer the population from there and let it develop quickly."

"Okay then, how many people are we going to take this time?" Norwin nodded, then asked.

"Hmm...... Bring all the recruits, if you can, you can exterminate the bandits or bandits, let them wear the eliminated leather armor first, let them see the blood, I want real warriors! ”

"Got it, let's go now!" After explaining, Norwen got up and said.

William nodded as well, handing the document on the table regarding the ownership of Bradkerman's estate to Norwen.